The Importance of Being Competent

The most stable way of positioning yourself properly in the long term is actually to be a fair player. If you tell your children it doesn't matter whether you win or lose it matters how you play the game and they look at you like they have no idea where you're talking about. You want to be invited to play as many games as you possibly can't but that's predicated also on a certain kind of ethic. The people who are dispossessed at the bottom won't fall completely off the edge of the planet, he says.